Ilka Feller

Staff Profile

Specialty

Mangrove Ecologist

Scientist Emeritus

felleri@si.edu

Research Labs

Animal-Plant Interaction

Curriculum Vitae

Expert Areas

animal plant interactions

aquatic ecosystems

biodiversity

ecology

ecosystems

global change

herbivores

insects

mangroves

nutrient pollution

plant ecology

pollution

Biography
Publications

Biography

B.A., University of North Carolina, Greensboro (Biology, 1969)/ Ph.D., Georgetown University (Ecology, 1993) Research interest in insect ecology, animal-plant interactions, mangrove ecology

Publications

Chieppa, Jeff ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Harris, Kylie ; Dorrance, Susannah ; Sturchio, Matthew A. ; Gray, Eve ; Tjoelker, Mark G. ; Aspinwall, Michael J. (2023). Thermal acclimation of leaf respiration is consistent in tropical and subtropical populations of two mangrove species . Journal of experimental botany, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad093
Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid ; Friess, Daniel A. ; Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Connolly, Rod M. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Rogers, Kerrylee ; Cannicci, Stefano. (2022). Cross-cutting research themes for future mangrove forest research . Nature Plants, 8 (10) , 1131-1135. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01245-4
Zamora‐Tovar, Carlos ; Fierro‐Cabo, Alejandro ; Lindig‐Cisneros, Roberto ; Feller, Ilka C. (2022). First report of Avicennia germinans (Acanthaceae) as a larval host of Junonia litoralis (Nymphalidae) causing higher foliar damage in seedlings than trees . Plant Species Biology, 37 (3) , 231-242. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1442-1984.12372
Aspinwall, Michael J. ; Faciane, Martina ; Harris, Kylie ; O'Toole, Madison ; Neece, Amy ; Jerome, Vrinda ; Colón, Mateo ; Chieppa, Jeff ; Feller, Ilka C. (2021). Salinity has little effect on photosynthetic and respiratory responses to seasonal temperature changes in black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) seedlings . Tree physiology, 41 (1) , 103-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpaa107
Baker, Ronald ; Abrantes, Katya ; Feller, Ilka C. (2021). Stable Isotopes Suggest Limited Role of Wetland Macrophyte Production Supporting Aquatic Food Webs Across a Mangrove-Salt Marsh Ecotone. Estuaries and Coasts, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12237-021-00895-5
Simpson, Lorae T. ; Canty, Steven W. J. ; Cissell, Jordan R. ; Cissell, Jordan R. ; Cherry, J. A. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2021). Bird rookery nutrient over-enrichment as a potential accelerant of mangrove cay decline in Belize. Oecologia, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05056-w
Dangremond, Emily M. ; Simpson, Loraé T. ; Osborne, Todd Z. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2020). Nitrogen Enrichment Accelerates Mangrove Range Expansion in the Temperate–Tropical Ecotone . Ecosystems, 23 (4) , 703-714. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00441-2
DeYoe, Hudson ; Lonard, Robert I. ; Judd, Frank W. ; Stalter, Richard ; Feller, Ilka C. (2020). Biological Flora of the Tropical and Subtropical Intertidal Zone: Literature Review for Rhizophora mangle L. . Journal of Coastal Research, 36 (4) , 857-884. http://dx.doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-19-00088.1
Gilby, Ben L. ; Weinstein, Michael P. ; Baker, Ronald ; Cebrian, Just ; Alford, Scott B. ; Chelsky, Ariella ; Colombano, Denise ; Connolly, Rod M. ; Currin, Carolyn A. ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Frank, Alyssa ; Goeke, Janelle A. ; Goodridge Gaines, Lucy A. ; Hardcastle, Felicity E. ; Henderson, Christopher J. ; Martin, Charles W. ; McDonald, Ashley E. ; Morrison, Blair H. ; Olds, Andrew D. ; Rehage, Jennifer S. ; Waltham, Nathan J. ; Ziegler, Shelby L. (2020). Human Actions Alter Tidal Marsh Seascapes and the Provision of Ecosystem Services . Estuaries and Coasts, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00830-0
Kennedy, John Paul ; Preziosi, Richard F. ; Rowntree, Jennifer K. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2020). Is the central-marginal hypothesis a general rule? Evidence from three distributions of an expanding mangrove species, Avicennia germinans (L.) L . Molecular ecology, 29 (4) , 704-719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.15365
Osland, Michael J. ; Day, Richard H. ; Hall, Courtney T. ; Feher, Laura C. ; Armitage, Anna R. ; Cebrian, Just ; Dunton, Kenneth H. ; Hughes, A. R. ; Kaplan, David A. ; Langston, Amy K. ; Macy, Aaron ; Weaver, Carolyn A. ; Anderson, Gordon H. ; Cummins, Karen ; Feller, Ilka C. ; Snyder, Caitlin M. (2020). Temperature thresholds for black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) freeze damage, mortality and recovery in North America: Refining tipping points for range expansion in a warming climate . Journal of Ecology, 108 (2) , 654-665. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13285
Simpson, Lorae T. ; Cherry, Julia A. ; Smith, Rachel S. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2020). Mangrove Encroachment Alters Decomposition Rate in Saltmarsh Through Changes in Litter Quality . Ecosystems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00554-z
Simpson, Lorae T. ; Lovelock, Catherine E. ; Cherry, Julia A. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2020). Short-lived effects of nutrient enrichment on Avicennia germinans decomposition in a saltmarsh-mangrove ecotone. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 235 , 106598-106598. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106598
Simpson, L. T. ; Osborne, T. Z. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2019). Wetland Soil CO2 Efflux Along a Latitudinal Gradient of Spatial and Temporal Complexity . Estuaries and Coasts, 42 (1) , 45-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12237-018-0442-3
Simpson, L. T. ; Stein, C. M. ; Osborne, T. Z. ; Feller, Ilka C. (2019). Mangroves dramatically increase carbon storage after 3 years of encroachment. Hydrobiologia, 834 (1) , 13-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-3905-z

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Understanding Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future

Ilka Feller

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